State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Tokar · State v. Parker · State v. Chambers · State v. Johnson · State v. Mayes
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The guiding issue of appellate review where the court has not sustained or instituted an order for a mental exam under [section] 552.020.2, is not whether the defendant was truly competent to stand trial, but, rather, whether the failure to order an exam under the circumstances constituted a denial of due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sneed“In the absence of such proffered evidence, the trial court was left with only its personal observations with which to evaluate Defendant's current mental competency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sneed
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.